Vance in near-daily talks with Qatar, Pakistan on Iran, US-Iran working-level meeting floated

The significance here is less the prospect of a US-Iran meeting than the channel itself: Gulf and South Asian intermediaries, rather than a direct bilateral track, are carrying the diplomacy. That elevates Qatar and Pakistan as brokers whose interests shape what Washington hears. The floated working-level format is the modest, technical end of engagement, and its unfinalized status signals that contacts remain exploratory. The open question is whether an intermediary-led process hardens into a defined format, or stays at the level of consultations without a date or structure.